Associate Director - Optum Leadership Experience
CurrentUnited Health Group - Strategy & Innovation - New Product DevelopmentOptum Rx – Pharma Services• Developing a payer and pharma agnostic comprehensive specialty patient data product, including real time pharmacy operations data and longitudinal adherence and demographics data, to help drive first fill rates and increase long term adherence rates within specialty patient populations • Developing a partnership strategy for Pharma Services gene and cell therapy products in partnership with Optum Frontier Therapies, Optum’s health services business dedicated to rare, orphan, and cell/gene therapiesOptum Rx - Strategy & Innovation - Product Development • Guided the development of a multi-PBM proposal to CMS for a CMMI demonstration featuring value based contracting approaches for the payment of new-to-market prescription therapies with extreme high cost, uncertain durability/efficacy, and a limited dosing schedule (e.g., cell and gene therapies)• Developing a population health focused health equity product suite aiming to bring innovative approaches to drive health equity value within the commercial health plan market• Co-authored a white paper covering CMS strategic considerations stemming from the Inflation Reduction Act, to be presented by UnitedHealth Group CEO to CMS as a means for furthering partnership opportunitiesOptum Direct-to-Consumer - Optum Store - Product and Strategy• Created new product development processes to assess the relative strength of business KPIs during the launch of telehealth functionalities for the Optum Store, a new-to-market digital health marketplace• Completed a strategic review of telehealth and telemental health product suite with actionable recommendations, presenting to Optum Store senior leadership
